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September News
Today is:

It ain’t your teenagers
annoying chat program anymore!

“SAN FRANCISCO -- Once a cool tool of the teen set, Instant Messaging has
been spotted lately sporting a brand new pair of wingtips. But even though
corporate usage of short messaging is skyrocketing, many firms are at a
crossroads,” says
Michael Singer

One of the most annoying parts of using “Instant Messaging” (IM) is that
there are so many different choices from AOL to MSN to ICQ. Every time you make
an acquaintance professionally or personally you have to find a new program to
install to keep up with the new contacts.

Wouldn’t it be nice to install one program and keep up with your business
associates, your teens and your personal acquaintances? Thanks to Trillian by
Cerulean Studios the word interoperability or one program that handles all
the IM platforms from Yahoo to ICQ, has become a reality.

I have personally been using Trillian for the past 3 months and would
recommend it to anyone who has to use more than one IM platform. I found it
easy to install and the inter-face is user friendly. A word of caution, be sure
you write down your name and password for each platform you use before you
configure Trillion. It will ask you for your user-id or number and your
password. That is easy to forget when you have the option to auto sign-in.

“Trillian, which competes with
Odigo and
Jabber to provide IM interoperability platforms, has enjoyed heady growth
among consumers recently, according to research from Jupiter Media Metrix. The
research firm said Trillian appeared for the first time in February 2002 in the
Media Metrix Internet audience ratings with 344,000 unique users and has grown
77 percent to 610,000 as of April 2002,” added
Ryan Naraine.

An ISDN Circuit includes the 128K
Dedicated (Always On) Internet Access along with the Southwestern Bell 128K ISDN
line. You can network a family of computers together with Internet access. It
also comes with an additional telephone line that you can even use for local
calls to Tulsa or OKC!

Last month we discussed the importance of "Protecting the Privacy of Your Email
Address" by using the BCC in sending email. This month we're going to discuss
the problems of junk email that is not SPAM. (Next month we'll talk about
SPAM).

Problem 3: Junk Email (not SPAM)

There is a fine line between what is "junk" email and what is SPAM email.
Examples of Junk Email are hoaxes (such as forwarding fake virus threats,
"Please help little Suzy", etc.), and chain letters. SPAM mail is any
unsolicited message of commercial intent.** It is safe to say that a vast
majority of the Internet community is fed up with both variants of trash,
including ISPs (Internet Service Providers). Trash email creates huge amounts
of network traffic that could be put to much better use, and often creates
slow-downs in service. Most competitive ISPs have powerful email servers and
sufficient bandwidth to support this to some extent, but the equipment is
expensive to maintain and bandwidth costs even more.

Solution: Don't Spread It!

This is a win-win situation for everyone, folks. Your ISP is happy that you
don't clutter the network, and your friends are saved from having to first
download then delete another nuisance from their mailbox already in the
hundreds. Here are some helpful links in sniffing out those virus hoaxes, email
fraud, and other junk messages:

· "Don't Spread That Hoax!" http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/

· "Hoaxbusters" http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

** "Unsolicited" is the operative word here as many SPAM companies claim that
their message was sent with your permission. Moral: Be careful what you click
"I Agree" for, you just might get it.